Saving document on a floppy?

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How do I save a document on a floppy disc?

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Hi brit,

You don't! Word is kind of unstable with removable media.

Save the document to your hard disk as usual;
Close Word;
Open the Windows Explorer or the open "My Computer" from the desktop;
Find your file;
Right click on it;
select "Send to...";
select Floppy 3½ (A.

If that is to difficult for you (I mean using Windows Explorer or My
Computer), save to the hard disk first from Word,
Then from the File menu select Save as...;
In the "Save in" dropdown list, (top left of the dialog), select Floppy 3½
(A.

But the first method is safer.

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[Graham Mayor]

You should have stopped while you were ahead ;-)

Your second method, while ensuring that you have a working copy is still
saving directly to the floppy. That second save makes the A drive the
working folder, and it is the lack of capacity on the A drive to create the
working temp files that is the major problem.

The simple answer is don't save from Word to floppy!

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[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Hi Graham,

You are absolutely right,

I know, but some people just can't use the Explorer...
So I thought I'd mentioned it was possible, but not advisable..

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[Graham Mayor]

I know, but some people just can't use the Explorer...

It's time they learned

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